Literary usage of Couches

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620-1720: Including Colonial Utensils and by Wallace Nutting (1921)"Nearly all couches were made with swinging heads, supported by chains. ...
The material of couches was, if the turnings were simple, likely to be maple; ..."

2.Roman Antiquities: Or an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans ...by Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte by Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte (1842)"... on couches (LECTI vel TORI) was introduced from the nations of the East, and
at first was adopted only by the men, but afterwards allowed also to the ..."

3.The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1878)"Furniture of Egyptian Rooms—Chairs, Stools, Ottomans, Mats, couches, ...
during meals ; though couches and ottomans formed part of the furniture of an ..."

4.The Life of the Greeks and Romans Described from Antique Monuments by Ernst Karl Guhl, W. Koner (1896)"About the end of the Republic the use of round tables (orbes) instead of square
ones became more frequent; the three couches standing at right angles were ..."

5.The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)"This Tissu de Verre is adapted to form curtains, couches and chair-coverings,
and may be seen in Oxford Street. A notable decrease in our silk trade as ..."

6.Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1901)"VI SETTLES, couches, AND SOFAS SETTLES THE settle seems to have been a direct
evolution from the chest. \VH Pollen, in his book on furniture, says: "As the ..."